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Visible mending: Why you should give your clothes a second life — and show off the repairs

Extending a garment’s life by just nine more months can reduce its carbon, water, and waste footprints by up to 20%.

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Wyoming's largest wildlife crossing is ahead of schedule. It plans to reduce deer-vehicle collisions by 90%

There are an average of 6,000 vehicle collisions with big game every year in Wyoming. A new overpass aims to slash those numbers.

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Housing

Indian families living in slums given opportunity to transform one-room shacks into their dream homes

The Sanjaynagar Redevelopment Project engaged residents in solving their own housing crisis.

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Governments Doing Good

For 60 years, people have mispronounced the world's third-smallest country. It just reclaimed its traditional name

To honor the country’s native language, the country has changed its name from Nauru to the Republic of Naoero.

A toddler in a teal patterned shirt looks down at an open picture book with colorful illustrated pages on a table in a kitchen.

Economics

Today’s children could be the first generation since the 1970s to do better than their parents, new studies suggest

Demographers say today’s small children have a brighter future economically than any generation since the surge of Baby Boomers aged into adulthood in the early 1970s.

A golden-crowned sifaka with a tan-colored head and black face sits on a tree branch surrounded by green leaves. A circular inset photo in the upper right shows a man, Leonardo DiCaprio, in a brown shirt.

Animals

Leonardo DiCaprio launches effort to bring 100 of the world's most endangered species back from the brink

DiCaprio’s Re:Wild is joining with the Bezos Earth Fund to recover critically endangered species across the globe.

A young elephant stands on muddy ground near stone walls and rocky terrain, appearing to interact with carved stone reliefs on the ground.

Animals

Experts race to save baby elephant after it was found injured and abandoned on a Thai riverbank

The elephant was estimated to be only two weeks old.

A woman, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger, wearing glasses and dark blazer seated at desk speaking, with American flag and gold seal visible in background.

Governments Doing Good

Virginia Gov. Spanberger restores voting rights to 66,000 people with past felony convictions

The announcement comes ahead of the November referendum that would make rights restoration automatic after release from incarceration.

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Environment

GoFundMe launches hub of verified Spokane wildfire relief fundraisers

Firefighters from eastern Washington and around the country have been responding to contain the fires since they began on Saturday.

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Animals

Blind cat helps stray kitten on the brink with life-saving blood transfusion

Dandelion the orange tabby is now on the road to recovery.

Recent Good News

Updated with new good news every day

Visible mending: Why you should give your clothes a second life — and show off the repairs

Wyoming's largest wildlife crossing is ahead of schedule. It plans to reduce deer-vehicle collisions by 90%

Indian families living in slums given opportunity to transform one-room shacks into their dream homes

For 60 years, people have mispronounced the world's third-smallest country. It just reclaimed its traditional name

Today’s children could be the first generation since the 1970s to do better than their parents, new studies suggest

Leonardo DiCaprio launches effort to bring 100 of the world's most endangered species back from the brink

Experts race to save baby elephant after it was found injured and abandoned on a Thai riverbank

Virginia Gov. Spanberger restores voting rights to 66,000 people with past felony convictions

GoFundMe launches hub of verified Spokane wildfire relief fundraisers

Blind cat helps stray kitten on the brink with life-saving blood transfusion

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